Bogus emails are being sent out to my contacts and I am receiving error messages (40 per day). What can I do?
This is an example of what I get many per day:
This message was created automatically by mail delivery software.
A message that you sent could not be delivered to one or more of its recipients. This is a permanent error. The following address(es) failed:
mollie15cat@yahoo.com ":fail: Domain haasome.com has exceeded the max emails per hour (150) allowed. Message discarded."
Reporting-MTA: dns; box295.bluehost.com
Action: failed Final-Recipient: rfc822;mollie15cat@yahoo.com Status: 5.0.0
ForwardedMessage.eml
Subject:
news from me
From:
Sherrie A. <my email address>
Date:
6/12/2016 9:05 AM
To:
"mollie15cat" <mollie15cat@yahoo.com>
Hello,
I've got some interesting news for you, you're gonna be pleaseantly surprised. Read more here http://cethyzotro.lechatexotique.com/lnkzepwg
Later, Sherrie A (Includes an attachment)
All Replies (1)
A spammer used your email address. What you do get are the undeliverable errors. It will stop at some point. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Backscatter_(email)
You can create a filer until then. http://kb.mozillazine.org/Filters_(Thunderbird)